Jenny: Just a small caveat . . . I found to my chagrin that the Source List Name *is* included in GEDCOMs and does appear in databases uploaded to RootsWeb unless you exclude the ABBREV tag when creating the GEDCOM.
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Jenny M Benson Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 2:16 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Lost and needing help Brian Beddor wrote >For Canadian census that I've gotten from Ancestry.com I generally >select "Census records" in the Legacy Source Writer. Then the drop down >menu asks 1.) Select the country and I select "Canada"; Then the drop >down menu asks 2.) Select the year and, in this case, I selected "1891 >census"; Then the drop down menu asks 3.) Select the medium and I >selected "Online images" since that is what Ancestry.com had. Then I >clicked "Go to Step 2"; Under the "Source List Name" you put how you >want the Source to be named. In my case I entered "Canada, Nova Scotia >- 1891 - Canadian >census" I think Brian has given an excellent mini-tutorial on entering a Census as a Source. I would just make one comment. As the Source List Name is really only for the user's use and doesn't appear on Reports or anything it doesn't really need to be terribly long and detailed, what is important is that one can remember the name and find it quickly in the list. In my view, the most important thing in this instance is that it's a Census, secondly that it's for Nova Scotia and thirdly the year, so my Source List Name would be "Census - Nova Scotia 1891." I have lots of Census source for England, Wales, Scotland, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. They are listed in the same manner as above so when I want to select one I can go straight to "Census" and each country is listed together in date order. My other Source List Names have a similar format, for example "Baptism Records - London", "Burial Records - Cheshire", "Newspaper - Daily Telegraph", "OPC - Cornwall"... Not necessarily very meaningful to someone else, but exactly suit my purpose which is all that is required. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
